Top 30 new albums for week ending Mar 23 presents:

Top 30 new albums for week ending Mar 23

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled.  Check back later if it’s not there yet

Rank	Artist	Album	Label
1	Anna & Elizabeth	The Invisible Comes to Us	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
2	Wood & Wire	North of Despair	Blue Corn Music
3	Young Fathers	Cocoa Sugar	Ninja Tune
4	Hailu Mergia	Lala Belu	Awesome Tapes From Africa
5	Windhand / Satan’s Satyrs	Windhand / Satan’s Satyrs	Relapse
6	Fruition	Watching It all Fall Apart	Lohi
7	The Lovely Eggs	This Is Eggland	The Lovely Eggs
8	Yo La Tengo	There’s a Riot Going On	Matador
9	Natalie Prass	The Future and the Past	ATO (AT0)
10	Banderas	Tema de Banderas – Single	Matasuna
11	PRhyme	PRhyme 2	PRhyme 2
12	Black Moth Super Rainbow	Panic Blooms	Rad Cult
13	Willie Nelson	Last Man Standing	Legacy Recordings
14	U.S. Girls	In a Poem Unlimited	4AD
15	Camp Cope	How to Socialise & Make Friends	Run for Cover
16	Barbara Dane	Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
17	Lucy Dacus	Historian	Matador
18	Various artists	Black Panther: The Album	Interscope
19	The Breeders	All Nerve	4AD
20	Night Idea	Riverless	Night Idea
21	Spooky Mansion	I’m the Moon – Single	Gaylord Party Music
22	Photosynthesizers	What Have We Become?	self-released
23	Saw Black	Water Tower	Crystal Pistol
24	Kenneka Cook	Moonchild	American Paradox
25	Minimum Balance	Minimum Balance	self-released
26	Radio B	Jesus Never Wore A Suit	The Association Of Great Minds
27	LAIR	In Exile	self-released
28	Magnus Lush	Hell Is Real – EP	Trrrash
29	Caverns of Pine	Dissociate – EP	Self Aware
30	Blanko Basnet	Blanko Basnet	self-released

New Albums Added:
Amen Dunes – Freedom (Sacred Bones)
Boniface – Phantom Limbs (Transgressive)
Brief Candles – Retreater (self-released)
Creep Show – Mr. Dynamite (Bella Union / PIAS)
Death By Unga Bunga – So Far So Good So Cool (Jansen)
Fickle Friends – You are Someone Else (Interscope)
Fowler, Wendy Rae – Warped (Plug Research / Round Trip)
Frankie Cosmos – Vessel (Sub Pop)
Hatfield, Juliana – Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John (American Laundromat)
Haulm – Stay for Me (Grand Jury / Fat Possum)
Isador – EP 1 (300 Entertainment)
Lampshades, The – Astrology (Mint 400)
Lawrence Arms, The – We are the Champions of the World (Fat Wreck Chords)
Le Galaxie – Pleasure (Red River)
Lexsoul Dancemachine – Sunny Holiday in Lexico (Funk Embassy)
ManDancing – Everyone Else (Take This To Heart)
New Holland – Alligator (self-released)
Oberon Rose – Tell Me All About It (ThouART)
Pinned In Place – Rubbernecking at the Gates of Hell (Reflective Tapes)
Preoccupations – New Material (Jagjaguwar)
Ratboys – GL (Topshelf)
Sango – In the Comfort Of (Last Gang)
Sloan – Sloan 12 (Yep Roc)
Spectors, The – Ooh Aah Aah (self-released)
Super Saturated Sugar Strings, The – All Their Many Miles (self-released)
Sword, The – Used Future (Razor & Tie)
Trace Mountains – A Partner to Lean On (Figure 2 RC)
Various Artists – Hummingbirds & Helicopters Vol. 1: A Benefit for South Texas (Cinquefoil)
White, Jack – Boarding House Reach (Third Man / Columbia)
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal – Cointhiax (Dark Medicine)
Zombies In Miami – Take it Off (2MR)

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Anna C.    March 24th, 2018

Posted In: Charts

Tags: Anna & Elizabeth, Hailu Mergia, Satan's Satyrs, Windhand, Wood & Wire, Young Fathers